Sign up for an Acquia Cloud subscription

Fill out the form and click Create to sign up for a subscription and start Acquia's automated site creation process.

The automated portion of the Acquia subscription process can take three to five minutes to complete. You'll know the entire process ends successfully when you see the checkmark appear next to the word "Done."

Check for domain alias conflicts

Ensure that your new site domain does not have a conflicting alias by running the host command on a command line. For example, the host command for the Test-Example-2 domain would be:

Keep in mind that Fastly and Acquia both run a Varnish Cache. In order to properly configure your service, Fastly needs to make a few modifications during the final setup process to ensure compatibility between the two. In this final setup process, Fastly runs a script to automatically provision and configure your Fastly account. This script will:

create an Acquia-specific service within your Fastly account,

add your Acquia origin to the new service,

add your end-user-facing domain to the new service, and

add caching configurations to your service to optimize content delivery.

As soon as the configuration on Fastly's side is complete, you will receive email notification that you can change your CNAME records to point at the appropriate corresponding Fastly endpoints. As soon as the CNAME process is complete, you'll be ready to start using Acquia Cloud as an origin for Fastly services.